This article states that
once you arrive at Mars you'll only have a couple of weeks before you'd have to begin a fresh Hohmann transfer back to Earth, otherwise you'll have to hang out on Mars for about 18 months before another launch window comes around, to return to Earth! That's why human missions to Mars are either short term (ten days or so on the planet) or long term (two years on the planet).
This sounds like you can go to Mars and back to Earth within a single Hohmann transfer. (I presume leaving the transfer orbit for about ten days would not significantly change the overall trajectory.)
However, the semi-major axis of a Hohmann transfer between the orbits of Earth and Mars, given by $$\frac{r_\mathrm{Earth} + r_\mathrm{Mars}}{2}\text{,}$$ is about 1.26 AU (assuming Earth and Mars have circular orbits around the sun, with $r_\mathrm{Earth} = 1\,\mathrm{AU}$ and $r_\mathrm{Mars} = 1.52\,\mathrm{AU}$), for which Kepler’s 3rd law gives an orbital period of 1.42 years. Hence, when an object following this Hohmann orbit arrives, after departing from Earth, in Earth’s orbit again for the next time, almost one and a half year will have passed and Earth will be somewhere on the other side of the sun: The transfer orbit would not return to Earth (at least not within one orbital period).
Neither Earth’s nor Mars’s orbit is exactly circular, and there is a difference in inclination, so the transfer orbit will not be exactly a Hohmann orbit, but the relative inclination and orbital eccentricities of Earth and Mars are low, so I do not expect this to have a significant impact.
I am also aware that a transfer orbit between two planets does not necessarily have to be a (near-)Hohmann orbit. However, as I understand it, there is a considerable difference in terms of energy (and thus fuel) requirements, making any transfer other than (near-)Hohmann more or less infeasible (in most situations, and specifically for Earth–Mars or back).
Given that a single Hohmann transfer orbit from Earth to Mars does not return to Earth, how would a Mars mission with staying only about ten days on Mars (as described by the article) be accomplished? Can it (reasonably) work at all, or is that article wrong? It also claims that
the Hohmann Transfer Orbit […] takes a good six months to go from Earth to Mars
which does not match the calculation above (the half of 1.42 years is 8.5 months), so I suspect that it either refers to some other kind of transfer orbit or just got the numbers wrong.